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It is always an easy matter to tear down. To build up, however,
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Biblical Science, or, as it was formerly known, the higher criticism
of the Bible, was held in light esteem by many because it was re-
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subject's of Merest to the
garded as being essentially destructive in character. This opinion,
Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the views
however, was held only by those who did not know. Those who are
eapreseed by the writers.
more than superficially acquainted with the scientific basis of his-
torical criticism realize that the end that Biblical Science has in view
Entered as second-class matter Marehl,'1916, at the PostoMee at Detroit,
is not to undermine but to firmly establish the true authority of the
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Bible.

The Next Task for th.. : j'eft>.'-: ,

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If the Jew has accomplished nothing else during the past quar-
ter century, he has led the way in scientific philanthropy. Ilis'own

problems have been so tremendous due, in the first place to the Vast
immigration -of his co-religionists and latterly to the war, that con-
ditions have compelled him to grapple with the situation intelli-
gently and in no haphazard fashion. While charity has always been
intimately associated with the Jew's religion and while care for his
own dependents has always been a source of righteous pride with
him, there has been nothing in the history of all his past that has
made the duty of reli'eving poverty and want so pressing and present
to him as it has come to be during these last years.

And with the prbblem assuming the tremendous proportions
that it has, the question of ,administration naturally had to be solved,
As a restilt-Men and women were developed who, because of their
native genius, forged their way to the very forefront among the
philanthropic workers of our time—men and women, surcharged as
it were, with'i very genius for leadership in this field. One cannot
think of any forward step that has been taken in the field of social
endeavor within recent years without somewhat associating with it
such names as Boris D. Bogen, Jacob Billikopf, Lee K. Frankel, and
others of their type.

ho enter the Courts without influ-
mnce.
Work at the Bei.
"Called to the liar by the Middle
Temple in 1887, his experience of life,
'specially of life in the city, his kern
intelligence, and his amiable character
moon brought him success. Work
came to hint for which his knowledge
and abilities fitted him pre-eminently,
and his handling of commercial and
financial cases earned for hint quickly
a Widespread reputation. 'Elie stages
in his progress as an advocate are
not forgotten, for he appeared in
many well-known causes. His mas-
tery of stock exchange matters and
of figures made his prosecution of
Whitaker 1Yright memorable. Other
cases in which he took part were the
trial of Dr. Krause, in which lie ap-
peared for the defense, and the Crip-
pen trial. lie also represented the
unsuccessful respondents in the fa-
mous appeal of Allen vs. Flood, the
Lot case in which the judges were
summoned to ads ise the House of
Lords. He entered the House of
Commons as Liberal member for
Reading in 1904 (having been defeated
at North Kensington when he stood
for election in 19(81), but for some
time paid much less attention to poli-
tics than to his work at the Bar. In
1910 he was appointed Solicitor Gen-
eral in succession to Sir Samuel Ev-
ans, now president of the Probate.
Divorce and Admiralty Division, and
tint long afterwards, on the pronto-
lion of the Attorney-General, now
Lord Robson, he was chosen to suc-
ceed hint, thus becoming the second
adherent of Jewish faith to be ap-
pointed a law officer of the Crown.
The first was the illustrious Jessel,
who was Mr. Gladstone's Solicitor-
General in the administration of 1868-
74. In June last year Sir Rufus was
promoted to Cabinet rank—an unprec•
edented honor for an Attorney-Gen-
eral. Sir Rufus, who had received
his knighthood upon his appointment
as Solicitor-General, was made a
member of the Privy Council in June,
1911.

This fact must be very clear to those who have had the privi-
lege of following Prof. Morgenstern in his course of lectures at
Temple Beth El this week. Dealing with his subject-matter objec-
tively and placing it under the scrutiny of careful analysis in much
the same fashion as the chemist does with the materials with which
he has to do, and accepting little on faith, Prof. Morgenstern proves
with scientific accuracy the relationship obtaining between various
parts Of the Biblical record and shows how Judaism grew from stage
to stage, passing through a well-defined evolutionary process.
The subjection of the Biblical record to this treatment is in no
sense irreverent. Indeed, the search for truth can never be irreverent.
They who fear that Biblical Science will rob them of the things
that they have held dear through the ages may put their fears aside,
unless, of course, they care to cling to superstitions and are willing
to put myth and history in the same category and to regard the re-
ligious conceptions of the most primitive teachings of Isaiah and of
Jeremiah.
Biblical Science, as interpreted by Morgenstern and the school
of criticism which he represents, gives to the various parts of the
Biblical story their proper setting in history and evaluates them
accurately. The Teachers' Institute of the Hebrew Union College
deserves the grateful appreciation of our community for makhig it
possible for us to have Dr. Morgenstern here year by year in his
scholarly and interesting lectures. Because of his coming the Bible
His Jewish Work.
should mean more to us than it ever did before. His work is essen-
"On numerous occasions Sir Rufus
tially constructive. It is only those who do not know who claim
has associated himself with his own
the contrary to be true.

Exchange, left finance for the Bar,
adopted politics, risen to be Attorney.
General, joined the Cabinet in that
unusual capacity, gone on to be Lord
Chief Justice and a viscount, ex-
changed the coronet of a viscount for
the coronet of ate earl, and ended as
British Plenipotentiary at Washing-
ton, without making one real enemy.
"Unless you enjoy an intimate ac-
quaintance with British etiquette, you
cannot realize fully how remarkable
are these achievements. Our Attor-
ney-Generals preside over the bar, but
they do not usually sit in the Cabinet.
Our Lord Chancellors remain poli-
ticians or statesmen, but Lord Mans-
field was, I think, the last Lord Chief
Justice to take a prominent part in
non-judicial business, and he lived
over a century ago. -
"Yet Lord Reading has broken
through all these traditions—and he
remnants a believer in the Jewish faith.
"Possibly he does not adhere to that
very strict school of which the late
Lord Swaythling was so patriarchal a
figurehead. But lie is quite loyal to
his religion.
Couldn't Be Lord Chancellor.
"This fact explains in part why lie
never ascended the woolsack as Lord
Chancellor. There are three great
judicial posts on the British Bench.
One is the Woolsack, dmr Keeper , oi
the King's Conscience. 'flue second is
Lord Chief Justice and the third is
Master of the Rolls, who deals chiefly
with lawsuits affecting property.
"The only religious bar to these ap-
pointments is this: The Lord Chan.
cellor must not be a Catholic. Tech,
nically, therefore, Rufus Isaacs, as 1w
used to be called, could occupy any
one of the three prized positions, and
his co-religionist, the late Sir George
Jesse!, was in fact Master of the Rolls
—indeed, one of the best we ever had.
"But there was a strong prejudice
as regards the Chancellorship for
'Itufus'—partly because of the patron-
age which that dignity exercises in
the Established Church. And it so
happened that. when Lord Loreburn
retired from the woolsack, a little in-
cident gave Lord Haldane the ad-
vantage over Lord Reading, and after
Lord Haldane came Lord Buckmaster.
"Lord Reading had to be content
as the first of his creed to be Lord
Chief justice. However, it's an ill
wind that blows nobody any good,
and if Lord Reading had achieved
his ambitions at that time lie might
have found it difficult to come to
\Vashington, for there is a rule against
Lord Chancellors ever leaving the
Limited Kingdom.

community. In May, 19(10, lie pre-
Nor has the influence
of these men's actIVities been Jell only
...
sided at a Maccabean dinner to the
within Jewry. Under the inspiration of their ex *ample •Workers in
I. A. Isaacs, K. C., of Melbourne.
A Worthy Successor to Dr. J. Leonard Levy. Hon.
In the same year he was himself the
Christian'and non-sectarian Charitiei have taken up their work and
guest of the Maccaheans. In Aoril,
Congregation Rodef Shalom of Pittsburgh is to be most heartily 1901, he presided at the Free School
practically .every
.
advance step that , has,been taken latterly: in the
field of social service may lie traced belt to the ittspiting.genitis of congratulated upon its choice of a successor to its beloved and dinner, and two months later was in
the chair at the distribution of prizes
lamented leader, Dr. J. Leonard Levy.
to the pupils of the Stepney Jewish
some Jew. The work of these men, too, has met with a ready re-
schools.
In July, 1902, he performed
•In the selection of Dr. Samuel II. Goldenson of Albany, N. V.,
sponse. 1:Inder these. circumstanees it cannot be ',surprising that a
Becomes a Viscount.
a similar duty in the case of the
to
fill
this
pulpit,
the
Congregation
has
chosen
a
man
who
will
"The fear is that the Great Seal of
number of Jews, entirely out of proportion to the total, number of
liampstead Synagogue Classes prize
measure up to the requirements of so high and responsible a posi- distribution. Upon the later occasion which they are the guardians might
our to-religionists, have generouslyrespolueCI to ' the appeals. for tion. 'true, he is a man of somewhat different type than Dr. Levy, lie told the pupils that 'they should get• lost somewhere -while. they were
help made in behalf of Jewish and non-Jewish,iwar•viatinis,lere,and who stood out an ovcrtowering figure among his colleagues. But be proud to belong to one of the most away. Hence the special commission
ancient and noble races in existence.' appointed to look after that precious
abroad. - - ..._. ., _ ................ .
•Rabbi-.Goldensou.is .a luau of line ability, of sterling character, of In February, 1907, Sir Rufus presided metal when . Lord Haldane paid
Not'oiity do we. think 'in thi•conneetion-ot.such-merras'Schiff deep- consecration. to-the cause of Israel and of -humanity, -a -man at the anniversary gathering of the America it brief but pleasurable visit."
Not long ago canie the announce-
and Rosenwald and Strauss aid Fox, but we remember that from whose manhood will reinforce his words ,and whose, preachments Butler Street CM, for Girls, and in
of the conferment of a viscount
the rank and file of Jewry have arisen thousands of mettand Women, will find their •finest exemplification in his own life. If, without December, h')08, over the Jews' Hos- ment
pital and Orphan Asylum festival din- tit Lord Reading. This was the highest
themselves not endowed WilliOver mlicl'veif the'wOrld'44;dds,iwInr, dvididtts 'distinction it may :be said, the Congregation has done ner. Sir Rufus also interested him- rank ever attained by an English
out of their little, have deemed it a privilege to contribute more than wisely in choosing a man whose experience fits him for the respon- self on behalf of the Jewish Lads' Jew. 'Then came the announcement
their share to the physical and MorafishlvatIonof 4Inise twhO had lest sible task that lies before him instead of following the example of 'Brigade, whilst in February last year of a further advancement.
he presided at a dinner in the inter-
He was one of the leading mem-
than they. The example of the workmen of New York, cited this other congregations that in recent times, in choosing their ministers, ests of the Education Aid Society.
bers of the Anglo-French financial
Lady Isaacs, whom Sir Rufus mar- commission which visited the United
week by:Mr. Billikopf, who though themselves suffering unwonted seem to have laid more stress, upon eloquence than upon experience.
ried in 1887, the year in which he was States in 1915. In 1916 he was created
hardships, insist- upon Making 1 tremendoty sacrifice fr their breth-
\Ve predict.for the Congregation and for the Rabbi in Pitts- called to the liar, was Miss Alice viscount and presided at the trial of
ren in the war;ione, is a case in Ain't. 4 71-fiiIced, we\,believe tlaat, ,we., burgle. Mhscht,pPy,and congenial relationship, and we trust that Edith Cohen, is the third daughter of Sir Roger Casement. His last visit
arc justified in iaying that never in- ail' historY hire •the Jekvsr 4-- tokethen.they.emay..goofrom strength to strength.
the late Albert Cohen, a London city to the United States was in Septem-
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merchant who had made a fortune as ber and October of 1917. Earl Read-
sponded so eagerly and so generously to so twiny and such varied
a merchant in New York 'city and ing presided at the Anglo-American
calls updn theirresources as is the. ease.tpday. %It is tupoo..Inu..,
The reaileR of,tlie Jewish Chronicle, together with his hosts of moved back to England. They have war conference in London in Novem-
to say that the few has taken the:Pl'ack . py Iplorship ill 6,,,orsloti friepdiandadatfirers throughout the land, rejoice with Mr. Nathan one son, Mr. Gerald Rufus Isaacs,• ber and during the sante month was
who was called to the Bar two years created Earl.
philanthropy. - .
Straus upon the recent attainment of three-score and ten years of ago.
Lord Reading has just returned to
But we should be warned that high as is the place which the his life.
England from the United States,
A Noteworthy Resemblance.
Jew has won in this particular field, he must not he content to rest
There is .no man in America who has made greater personal
"In the history of the office of At- where he headed the British mission
there feeling that in giving material relief, to, his brethren and to sacrifices for the cause of Israel in its time of trial than has Mr. torney-General, Sir Rufus Isaacs will named to visit that country on im-
portant war duties. He is now 56
those whb arc not of his faith he has ,reached, his highest possibilities Straus. May he be spared for many years to continue his beneficent always have•t stleclal plaCe as its-firif years
old.
holder to he included, in , the:Cabinet,
as Jew, and hasfulfilled his destiny on earth. On the contrary, while work for his brethren and humanity, and to enjoy the esteem and an honor, hOwever, which, no doubt
we recognize with the Biblical sage, that "the poor shall never cease the respect ,nhich is so richly lavished upon him by all who know on the same personal grounds, is per-
petuated in his successor. Sir Rufus THE VINDICATION
. from the land," we do hope for a time when the giving of charity him, .
Isaacs' great strength in the courts
OF TROTZKY
will not be the,final expression. of Jewish, consciousness, but when,
has always been as an advocate rather
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on the contrary, the Jew shall feel that he is 'realizing himself only
than as a learned lawyer, and in his
capacity as Chief Law Officer to the
in propottion as he deepens his spiritual life and as his Jewishness
Probably th 5 ;i n nto ihs 'e t tr ) e. Markable de-
Crown he has been less successful in
asserts itself in terms of feeling as well as in terms of doing. ,
cases of technical difficulty before the velopment in the war situation is the
The supremacy of the Jew as a philanthropist somehow inevit-
judges than in those at nisi pries in change of attitude taken in the allied
which he was dealing with a jury. As countries towards Leon Trotzky, the
ably assdciates itself with the idea that Jewry has not yet outlived THE ROMANTIC CAREER OF RUFUS ISAACS,
a cross-examiner he has been supreme Jewish Bolsheviki leader. The manly
its state of martyrdom. So long as a disproportionate number of
among the advocates of recent years. way he conducted' himself in the
EARL READING, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF
Jews require the.material help of their brethren because, of the want
"There is a noteworthy resemblance conferences just concluded at Brest-
between the earlier careers of the new Litovsk, where the smirking German
that follows from oppression, the spiritual and religious genius of
ENGLAND
AND
AMBASSADOR
TO
U.
S.
Lord
Chief Justice and his predeces- envoys imagined they would find in
the Jew cannot assert itself at the highest. This must come after
sor. Both began life in circumstances him a ready tool for their purposes
there has been a period of repose and comfort which implies freedom
which made extraordinary toil and provided they gave him his price,
from hostility and persecution and the want and woe that follow in
IR RUFUS ISAACS, the fa- and nephew of the late Sir Henry pet severance essential to success, and shows him to be not only a radical
mous English Jew who was Isaacs, one time Lord Mayor of Lon- it is said that for weeks at a stretch! agitator capable of,,,swaying the un-
their wake. Up to now the Jew has been so deeply absorbed in his
both have worked into the small hours reasoning masses, but a diplomat of
recently appointed British don. He received his early education
material problems that he has not been able fully to realize the
and have risen at S or 6 o'clock in the the very first order and, above all, a
High Commissioner to the at the Rev. A. P. Mendes's College in morning in order to cope conscien- sincere idealist intent upon ushering
higher and holier promptings of his nature. But for all that, he, has.
Northwick Terrace, Maida Vale, and
United
States,
is
the
first
Jew
to
be
tiously
with their increasing work. into the world a better order of things.
not been unconscious of his higher mission.
subsequently attended the University
Both have also shown the same As a result, almost over night not
And itoday. perhaps as one of the compensating results. of, the Lord'Chief Justice, 2S Ile was the first College School and Kahn's Interna- breadth of mental vision and the same only has the world changed its opin-
Jew to he appointed Attorney-Gen- tional Institute, in Brussels, and later
great struggle through which we are passing, he is reaching out and
power of grasping and disentangling ion of him, but liberal leaders every-
eral, and the first Atfornry-General to on went for a course of training to
where have come to see him. in . the
up toward something better. This straining toward spiritual self-
Hanover. Early in life he manifested enormous masses of complicated de-
have a seal in the Cabinet.
a spirit of adventure, which has been tail and technicalities. Both took silk very embodiment of the spirit which
realization expresses itself on the one hand among those so-called,
Under the • heading "Sir Rufus
well before the age of 40 after they unites the Allies in their common
Zionists to whom the political state.in, Palestine is purely a second- Isaacs: A Romantic Career," the Lon- tamed rather than crushed by ma- had been only ten or eleven years at tight upon Prussian autocracy and
turity of experience, and led him as a
ary intident and not the all-essential of their program. And, on don "limes stated at the time of his boy to leave the home of his father, the liar. Neither was at his best in ruthlessness. He has heartened the
cause of Democracy by the manly
the otlierlhand,It shows itself with no less clearness among the vast appointtnent as Lord Chief Justice, in a merchant in Lonodn, and go to sea. the House of Commons. no doubt be- fashion in which he has upheld it.
cause it is rare to find men who pos-
and growing numbers of Reform Jews who insist in true prophetic 1913, that the appointment of Sir Ru- At the end of such a period of hard- sess the mobility of mind which can face to face with its enemies, and, to
ship as falls to the lot of lads who
spirit th4t the Jew's mission in the , world must express itself in fus to succeed Lord Alverstone as dare to serve before the mast, he adjust itself with case and quickness the surprise of the German rulers,
what. was confidently regarded by
terms of,-the religious leadership of men.
Lord _Chief justice of England at the again took his fortunes in his hand alternately to the often reckless exi-
gencies of party politics and to the them as ; prologue to peace, ,,has
and
choSe,
the
uncertainty
of
the
age
of
53
had
been
anticipated
for
And so the next task of the Jew is to make religion—that re-
turned out to be an ominous hapd-
Stock Enfant in preference to the severer logic of a cause at law."
writing on the wall, a gloomy remind-
ligion Jot which through untold centuries Jews have nobly lived some time by the Bar, where he is certainty of the,solid leafiness calling
Opinion of Fellow M. P.
universally popular, and on several
An interesting description of the er that the Prussian program cannot .
and bra4ely died—a living, vital and compelling factor in men's occasions lately its most prominent vvItieh awaitea, hi through the in-
personality of Earl Reading is given be carried out. Thus through Trotzky,
lives. Sb long as there is a -Clear consciousness of the mission of members have taken pains to shop in fluence ollfis'farni19Iri the city. For• by P. W. Wilson, of the London Daily Russia has done its bit in spite of the
tune wei,ne:inere,IsInd t6 hiffs Ai 'a
the Je;., to attain to spiritual self-realization there need be no fear rublic that it would be to their , satis- broker, and, at the age of twenty- News. Mr. Wilson entered Parlia• collapse of the armed force once mar-
i4 the " c ulmination 9f a
factiori.
shaled against the Teutons. Trotzky
uie: Philanthropy may care for the Jew, but there.needs career trim, has had several asptcts four, his love of adventure still un- ment— artfirnme time at tord 'Rea -
of our; f tit
i— sho
witirthil —fie,-11"tieTtel—if The
subdued, he was only dissuaded from ing, in 1906, and heard his maiden helm; he has kept faith
to be pa e also for Judaism, .which is the life and the soul of the to which the epithet "tomantic: is emigrating
with Democ-
speech. He writes.
to America
.
ra cy.1 In•spite, Qf his
unusually applicable.,
by the en-
Jew's being." "
impulsive re-
"The rtell'inclalle thle firdil
, .
I
treaties of his mother. It was then
italli• t "
disokv\ilng.ritti414ANs
• Was a Business Failbre..
Lit t not be too much' to hope that as these recent years have
that he resolved to study law, and this man is that, beginning life in aI ti ons he has acted like a true konnec-
Jew in
Jewish
"The. Lord Chief Justice is a son of
which had not then ar= fh e most -
develdgie
Ille_Salatioa,s,4 the Jgrja. 44,,...1,14,4414.03414044whant, thus to embark upon yet another ca- rived at family
critical slthatioit Of the *as.
lame, he should• have run A few
reer, which is risky enough for those
more jewish•Prime Ministers
away to sea, riturned to the Stock w

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